Survive This season 2
season of television series
This is a list of episodes for the second and final season of Survive This, a Canadian reality TV show on which eight teenagers with limited survival skills training are taken into a forest and confronted with a number of survival challenges to test their skills and perseverance. The show is hosted by Les Stroud, who narrates each episode, provides the teens with survival challenges, and assesses their performance.
The second season premiered on April 19, 2010, on YTV.
Participants
Participants were selected for the show, in part, based on their strong personalities. All the participants were required to take a three-day survival program with David Arama, a wilderness survival expert and close friend of Les Stroud's. Training including how to build a shelter, fire-starting, edible plants, and using a compass. The season two cast included:
Colin—Colin is a 15-year-old from Hamilton, Ontario. He believes that a balance between school and friends is important. He was named "Ultimate Survivor" by Les Stroud.
Ian—Ian McBain is a 14-year-old from Ajax, Ontario. Interested in animals and the outdoors and seeking a career as a biologist, McBain was inspired to audition for the second season after seeing the first season episode Swamp: "The episode from the first season that really motivated me to try to get on the show was the swamp episode.
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